Innovation

Cadence Products – Helping Customers Develop More Sustainable Products Cadence’s Intelligent System Design strategy enables our customers to design innovative and differentiated electronic products. One of the essential drivers for the electronics industry is the desire to develop products that continuously reduce power consumption while increasing performance. Awareness of power usage, performance, and area (PPA) in electronic design is critical. We understand these pressures and continue to innovate and provide technology to achieve the ideal combination of low power with high performance in smaller form factors. We introduced Tempus™ Power Integrity in 2019, which allows design teams to identify areas in the design where they might have to account for possible spikes or drops in voltage and fix those areas so they are optimized and more power aware. This capability greatly lowers overall power consumption, making the design more efficient while not impacting performance. We also launched our Celsius™ Thermal Solver, which enables customers to mitigate thermal issues from chip to package to printed circuit board all the way through to system enclosures. Cadence is the only provider to offer customers this holistic view of their products at a complete system level. This view gives customers not only the opportunity to identify “hot spots” in a design early so they can be addressed and minimize late-stage modifications, but also enables them to find opportunities for product differentiation.

Celsius Laptop Simulation CFD

Cloud Cadence products are constantly evolving to help customers reduce design iterations, improve design optimization and avoid delays. Cadence also offers Cloud services to customers, which gives them access to more processing power for faster turnaround times for their designs. The secondary benefit for customers using the Cadence Cloud offerings is reducing their need to buy, power, and maintain specialized hardware. Through the Cadence Cloud offerings, we provide an “as needed” model versus an on-premises, always-on high power consumption usage model. This saves data center space and resources by reducing the number of servers that customers need to purchase, power up, and maintain for peak design use. Reduced design iterations means customers can shorten the design cycle and get to market faster and potentially ahead of their competitors who don’t use Cadence Cloud, with the added benefit of consuming less power and other resources.

Palladium Z1 Datacenter

Innovation at Cadence Cadence encourages its employees to generate ideas for new products, solutions to address customers’ most difficult challenges, and improvements to existing Cadence products and processes. Game-changing innovation happens when every employee brings their diverse skills, knowledge, and experiences to the table. Our employees around the world participate in local, regional, and global hackathons that encourage creativity and innovation. In 2019, 178 teams from 28 sites participated in our global hackathon that challenged employees on technology innovation, improving our customers’ experience with us and our products, and improving our employees’ experience and engagement at Cadence. We also support a “bungee” program in our R&D teams, which is a special project-based work method that brings diverse team members together for fixed-length temporary assignments on innovative projects. Each project has a specific charter and goals with the objective to investigate, develop, and prototype new solutions. Participating employees try out new interests and take on new challenges, without having to leave their current role.